Tandemworld Newsletter for August 2012 Page 1 of 13 Tandemworld eNewsletter for August 2012 Gold Sponsor is Silver Sponsor is Tandemworld Newsletter for August 2012 Contents uLinga for Enterprise Extender (EE) gets traction in the market Tributary will Announce ViTAL and Storage Director 4.0 Brightstrand Health Check Service Companies Need New Fall Resolutions for BC/DR Mission Critical Security for your Mission Critical Applications Musings on NonStop! - August 2012 Availability Digest Examines the Recent HP/Oracle Lawsuit Ruling XYPRO in Your Neck of the Woods Join the Pan-European GTUG/CONNECT Event Stanton Systems Makes OPTA2000, FileSync Sales for TANDsoft XYPRO Webinars on Demand Ban Bottlenecks: Proactive Capacity Planning Discover the future with Java on NonStop at the “Connect Germany GTUG GO International” in Dresden NonStop gets Noticed !! NSWi Employment file:///C:/1/Tandemworld/Tandem%20World/Website%20July%202010/Newsletters/ ... 23/ 08/ 2012 Tandemworld Newsletter for August 2012 Page 2 of 13 Online Version uLinga for Enterprise Extender (EE) gets traction in the market uLinga for EE, the latest addition to the uLinga family of products, has gained some early successes in Canada, the UK, Germany, and now also in the USA. Organizations wanting to migrate away from SNA to native TCP/IP whilst retaining the SNA API’s now find a viable and cost-effective alternative to existing solutions in uLinga for EE. Significant cost savings in license cost combined with stellar project and product support from comForte and its development partner Infrasoft make all of the uLinga products a compelling proposition. The latest migration project in the USA went live in August replacing SNAX with uLinga for EE. This customer wanted to modernize its network environment, standardize on IP, and save some money at the same time. uLinga for EE provided all that. To learn more about uLinga please check www.comforte.com/ulinga . Come and see us at these upcoming events in 2012 OZTUG, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia, Sept 4 and Sept 6 InNUG, Goa, India, Sept 13-15, 2012 PCI Community Meeting, Orlando, Florida, Sept 12-14, 2012 Pan-European GTUG/CONNECT, Dresden, Germany, Sept 26-27, 2012 NonStop Technical Boot Camp, San Jose, USA, Oct 14-17, 2012 PCI Community Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, Oct 22-24, 2012 EBUG Technical Focus Group, London, UK, Oct 22-23, 2012 CNUG, Toronto, Canada, Oct 24, 2012 BITUG BIG SIG, London, UK, December 5-6 , 2012 Stay connected and follow the discussions: Tributary will Announce ViTAL and Storage Director 4.0 At NonStop Advanced Technical Boot Camp, San Jose, CA Adds NPIV Virtual Front-End Ports Tributary Systems, Inc. will release ViTAL® and Storage Director® 4.0 with enhanced connectivity and security features at the NonStop Advanced Technical Boot Camp this October. Tributary is an HP NonStop Enterprise Division OEM supplier, Solutions Developer and HP Business Partner. Version 4.0 of ViTAL and Storage Director® enable 8Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity with support for the NPIV facility that allows multiple virtual devices to utilize a single physical port for HP NonStop and IBM Mainframe hosts. Among new security features, 4.0 adds several levels and methods of password security to better protect stored data. ViTAL/Storage Director is a unified robust virtual backup solution for all HP and IBM® platforms, and v4.0 adds new capabilities and enhancements. The total solution includes ViTAL/Storage Director software on HP DL580 servers, with HP disk and tape technology, and HP hardware support. With ViTAL/Storage Director, HP NonStop, IBM Mainframe and open platform customers can unify their backup infrastructure, sharing backup/DR resources among all the environments running in their data centers. Tributary Systems is discussing ViTAL and Storage Director 4.0 and its unified backup capabilities in Booths 28-29 at the NonStop Advanced Technical Boot Camp in San Jose, California October 14-16. Tributary Systems, Inc. ( www.tributary.com ) delivers data protection with vision. Customers include Fortune 20, Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 1000 companies, as well as small and middle market companies in banking, financial services, retail, telecommunications and healthcare. file:///C:/1/Tandemworld/Tandem%20World/Website%20July%202010/Newsletters/ ... 23/ 08/ 2012 Tandemworld Newsletter for August 2012 Page 3 of 13 Brightstrand Health Check Service Maximise your hp NonStop(tm) Server environment. The BrightStrand International hp NonStop Server Health Check Service has been created in order to provide users of hp NonStop(tm) Servers with a situation report as to the status of their hp NonStop systems and service environments. The service has been designed by BrightStrand, to assure customers that they are getting the optimum from their current hp NonStop(tm) Server environments. The Health Check will provide a guide to assist customers in making improvements to various service areas. It can also be used as a tool to aid the decision-making process in such key areas as hardware purchasing, system migration and Service Level Agreement (SLA) planning. The service will take into account a number of factors depending on the pre-defined scope. These may include - procedures, strategies, system performance, configurations and security. The service will involve the monitoring of system metrics, an assessment of general procedures, a review of software revision levels and a general check of the installation. Service Objective The objective of the Health Check is to provide high quality reviews of service areas that have been identified, by the customer, as being of concern or of interest. The main goals of the service will be: To advise on compliance with standards. To report on efficiency and performance. To identify possible problem areas and recommend solutions. To advise on current or future strategy. This will be achieved by engaging a fully qualified and experienced BrightStrand consultant that will work closely with the customer to agree the scope of the engagement and to identify areas of special interest or concern, use BrightStrand tools and solutions to gather the necessary information and documentation, analyse the information and deliver the agreed reports. Consultancy will be provided in the areas of Performance, Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery, Operations, Database Management, System Security, System Management and Hardware Maintenance. For further details please contact Dave Stewart today on +44 (0)7831 775115 or email him on [email protected] . Companies Need New Fall Resolutions for BC/DR Hello Everyone, We hope that you all have had great summer vacations, or holidays, as they say in certain parts. We look forward to the fall each year as it is a busy, busy time. It seems that once September rolls around and the kids are back in school, customer deployments and prospect’s interest pick way up. Certain prospects without a DR approach (or at least one they have real confidence in) periodically inquire each fall about Business Continuity. So, it seems to me that we need our New Year’s resolutions to be issued in the fall instead of at the end of the year… The New Fall resolutions for customers without a truly working DR should be to finally get those deployments implemented because the cost of a DR system is small compared to a lengthy outage and loss of data. What is nice about BC/DR is that HP will gladly ship you a system and the DR/BC vendor will gladly install its software – and it can all be done before the busy Christmas holiday season! Then you can really enjoy the New Year as you will have a much shorter list of New Year’s resolutions. For more information, please contact us at +1 610-647-6250 or [email protected] to discuss your specific situation and to learn more about the solutions we offer. Regards, Paul J. Holenstein Gravic EVP Please Visit Gravic at these Upcoming Shows GTUG, Dresden, 25-27 September file:///C:/1/Tandemworld/Tandem%20World/Website%20July%202010/Newsletters/ ... 23/ 08/ 2012 Tandemworld Newsletter for August 2012 Page 4 of 13 Connect NonStop Advanced Technical Boot Camp, San Jose, 14-16 October CTUG Fall Conference, Toronto, 24 October BITUG Big SIG, London, 6 December For more information, please visit: www.gravic.com/shadowbase . http://www.linkedin.com/company/gravic -inc./shadowbase -data -replication -305119/product http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gravic -Shadowbase/116969767814 Trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Mission Critical Security for your Mission Critical Applications XYPRO continues to lead the way with Mission Critical Security Solutions for your HP NonStop servers. Join XYPRO at several NonStop Security events in September like GTUG in Dresden and the India NonStop User Group in Goa. See how XYPRO can deliver the security and peace of mind you need to combat the current and future threats facing your Mission Critical environments and applications. The XYGATE suite of products continues to offer industry-leading authentication, auditing, encryption and compliance solutions, and our new partnerships take our capabilities even further. Our recently announced partnership with Voltage gives our customers more encryption, tokenization, and masking options, including Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE). Our partnership with IdentityForge means that your NonStop user provisioning can be integrated with your enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. And our brand-new partnership with NetAuthority introduces highly secure, yet simple and transparent, device-level authentication – critical in these days of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). The sessions provide overviews for these products and their capabilities – join us at one of these events to hear more. Barry Forbes VP of Sales & Marketing XYPRO Technology Corporation www.xypro.com Musings on NonStop! August, ‘12 The opinions expressed here are solely those of the now self-employed author If last month I wrote about perceptions, perhaps this month I should be writing about the new reality.